The government FIRED this disabled veteran… the reason why will make you CRY

In another outrageous example of the Obama administration’s punishing those who do the right thing — and actually put the president’s grand lip service into action — a disabled veteran says she was fired from her government job for reporting waste, fraud and abuse. Despite being offered $366,000 to drop her claim, what she really wants is an apology from none other than the president himself.

“I want an apology from the White House,” said the woman, who wants to protect her privacy and remain anonymous. And she isn’t joking. She wants an apology from President Barack Obama.

“I followed the president’s orders,” she said. “I reported waste, fraud and abuse.”

In 2012, this disabled vet took a job with the National Council on Disability and blew the whistle on what she saw as illegal contracts not competitively bid or properly executed. Soon after, she was put on administrative leave. For 15 months, taxpayers paid her $170,000 to stay home. In April, she was fired.

“They don’t want me in the office seeing what they’re doing,” she added.

The whistleblower’s claim cited “substantial likelihood” of “violations of law” — including by senior agency officials — and strongly urged an Inspector General investigation. Turns out, the National Council of Disability is one of 41 independent federal agencies — accounting for a whopping $1 billion in federal funding — that doesn’t actually have an Inspector General. That’s some commitment to pursuing waste, fraud and abuse, isn’t it?

And, here’s a shocker: the agency’s internal audit — their own people looking at potential wrongdoing of their own — “found no wrong doing.” Nope, WE didn’t do anything wrong!

The agency apparently DID find wrongdoing by the whistleblower, who was harassed and fired.

“I did nothing wrong,” concluded the whistleblower. “The only thing I did was report malfeasance in this agency and I was harassed for doing the right thing.”

Testament to the whistleblower’s integrity — a trait in such short supply from the administration, apparently — the whistleblower TURNED DOWN the $366,000 she was offered by the agency to drop her employment complaint against them. Impressive.

While we’re guessing the whistleblower will be waiting a long time (forever) for President Obama’s apology, at least she’ll be able to look herself proudly in the mirror.

Meet Allen West

Allen West was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia in the same neighborhood where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once preached. He is the third of four generations of military servicemen in his family.

During his 22 year career in the United States Army, Lieutenant Colonel West served in several combat zones: in Operation Desert Storm, in Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he was a Battalion Commander in the Army’s 4th Infantry Division, and later in Afghanistan.